On Sat, Sep 12, 2020 at 3:51 AM divoplade <d...@divoplade.fr> wrote:
> From the scheme side, however: > 1. The bytevector library needs to be imported; > If a single line is a serious overhead, then your program is tiny and you can do whatever you want: it will be obvious to whoever maintains the program next (including you). > 2. The function names have way more characters to type; > Use an autocompleting editor such as Emacs. > 3. The bytevector library is missing a lot of text functions (like > join, split, trim, pad, searching...). > That is indeed an issue. Fortunately SRFI 207, though not yet final, comes to your rescue. You can't get the spiffy syntax described at < https://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-207/srfi-207.html> unless you modify the Guile reader, but the procedures documented there can be found at < https://github.com/Zipheir/bytestrings>. John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan co...@ccil.org It was impossible to inveigle Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Into offering the slightest apology For his Phenomenology. --W. H. Auden, from "People" (1953)